Well, that's one way to speed up EV adoption.
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At last, comrade Trump has assaulted capitalism! Long live he who prepares the world for the great decoupling of fossil fuels
Honestly, I'd pay good money - all my money - if this ended capitalism (especially this late stage shit we're in), killed off corporations, and ushered in an era of progressive steps towards communism...
Me too. I only briefly entertained any delusions of being permitted to live a comfortable life in this system.
Just like your delusions about opossums eating ticks, amirite?? LOL gotem!
At last, comrade Trump has assaulted capitalism! Long live he who prepares the world for the great decoupling of fossil fuels
Hey don't judge. Trump's just doing his best to combat climate change.
Interactive version, so you can be as destructive as you know you want to be: https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/vJa5RiZWs
I don't think there's a huge amount of fertilizer going through the strait, saudia arabia is the only producer that would need to do that, and while they're in the top 5 fertilizer producers, they are #5 by a fair amount.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/fertilizer-production-by-country
You had separated the two in your argument, so I focused on the fertilizer aspect which you had indicated as the most impactful. Regarding LNG, all of the countries combined that could be impacted by the strait's closure would only just pass Iran itself to hit the #3 spot, and that's mostly from Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
All of them combined, including Iran, produce less than Russia alone, and nowhere close to the US. It's not so much that there will be shortages due to lack of supply, there will be shortages because it will get so expensive that poorer countries won't be able to afford it.
Or they start trading with Russia, giving them more funds for their invasion of Ukraine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_gas_production
Remember those "I did that" Biden stickers that dumbasses put on all the gas pumps a few years back?
I've been thinking about those a lot lately.
The Trump ones are funny because they use the pic of him looking into the eclipse without eye protection:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1842758474/100pc-trump-i-did-that-stickers-gas-pump
Lmfao oh fuck is that where that picture's from?! Oh god I think I remember that, now that you mention it. He was standing on some balcony right?? I totally forgot
Edit: https://imgproxy.newswav.com/1000x0,q50=/https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/trump.jpg
HAHAHAHAHA
Nothing wrong, the price will rise the rich get richer. Its by design.
Oil is one of the biggest blocks in that stack
Highest, you mean? Because it's not stable at all.
And also, it's way down on the stack. The cartoon may apply better to oil than to OpenSSL.
This is referring to the fact that when oil gets more expensive, everything else does because oil is used to make fuel for transport of most resources in the supply chain. Because of how important is to the global economy, the exact disastrous effects are still unpredictable.
We’ve spent nearly 100 years ignoring the problem and refusing to develop the alternative systems that would lower our reliance on oil. The modern society will never be able to move fully away from oil, there’s hardly a better solution for energy density.
But we could have still built the public rail systems to move people, built housing that was very energy efficient, designed our communities to be walkable, put solar panels on every rooftop etc. knowing that oil pollutants were a problem for the environment and a massive crutch that once broken, would collapse modern life.
Lmao if that really happened, people better work really fucking fast on moving to electrical everything.
We're so good at working together at literally anything. Look how well the world handled covid! We all stayed home for just two weeks and didn't totally have a global pandemic that's lasted six years now.
Let me reiterate that:
We couldn't be asked to stay home even for a measley two weeks to eradicate a
G L O B A L
F U C K I N G
P A N D E M I C
THE ENTIRE P L A N E T
but yeah. No more oil? What could go wrong weeeeeee
The global economy is dying?
Good. Let it die.
https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/theory/economy-suffering-let-die/
I wonder if Randall could have ever for seen this image taking such a flight that now it has trump in it...
Oil isn't even one of the tiny blocks.
Yeah, it's the big block two levels above the tiny block he's poking.
Yeah, or to be more accurate, it would be an L-shaped block that itself holds up part of the blocks above but also has some smaller blocks helping hold those blocks steady (to represent renewal energy but also acknowledge that it doesn't yet replace everything oil does in a parallel oil-free system).
So, there's no justifying this war... Maybe this will push electric vehicles to the fore though.
There's plenty of justifying this war: it's the carbon price I've always dreamed about. The most progress on climate change we ever had was from the COVID pandemic, I want to see oil hit $300/barrel because then the entire world will move mountains to switch to renewables.
We could've done this all painlessly by starting 30 years ago, but we didn't and this is the only way we have even a chance of reaching net-zero by 2030.
So, not only is the Iran War the Greta Thunberg dream, but it's locking in those prices for a good while after the war, thanks to the Arab Gulf oil facilities being not just shut down but also bombed and therefore needing repair/replacement before they can restart after the war.
And on top of aaaaaaaalllll of that, 1) Trump is taking the flak for this political decision, and 2) we might even get a democratic Iran out of this - it's not likely, but it's plausible and would be wonderful news!
So let's applaud our Deep Cover Agent from Greta Thunberg's Personal Army, our great comrade-in-arms, who's managed to trigger this war!
Yeah it's functionally mass eco-terrorism against oil on a mass scale lmao
Rather unfortunate that a lot of the oil in the facilities and such is being burned, but it was gonna be burned anyways so i feel like it is kinda worth the damage to the economy and infrastructure

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